American Nurse

JUNE 24, 2025

Throughout my 32-year nursing career, I have been shaped by the insights and experiences of many talented individuals who have profoundly influenced my professional journey and taught me how to innovate and improve my professional practice. Additionally, an estimated 70,000 nurses, including leaders, are expected to retire annually.

Leadership

Daily Nurse

JANUARY 15, 2024

They found that 1/3 of surveyed physicians and nurses planned to reduce work hours within a year, and approximately 40% of nurses planned to leave their current jobs within two years [3]. Nurses who are leaving the bedside aren’t retirement age. Stress, burnout, and heavy workload.

Retirement

Nurse.com

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) echoed that language. Its Survey on Vacant Faculty Positions for Academic Year 2022-2023 reported that 8.8% of the nation’s full-time nurse faculty positions are vacant — nearly a full point higher than the previous year (8%). nursing schools were turned away in 2021.

Nurse Educator

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level. As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. First and foremost, nurses require better pay.

Nurse Shortage

American Nurse

AUGUST 30, 2023

One was dismissed for drunkenness, another for ill health, and the third for incompetence—these reasons for leaving or being asked to leave nursing resonate in modern times. What the NCSBN and other nursing workforce studies don’t report is what became of the ex-nurses. National Council of State Boards of Nursing.

Bedside nursing

Scrubs

AUGUST 18, 2023

nurses plan on quitting their jobs at the end of 2022, which would leave thousands of medical facilities and millions of patients without the care and support they need. We asked millions of nurses if they have ever thought about quitting and what made them decide to stay. Just trying to make it to retirement.

Retirement

American Nurse

JULY 10, 2023

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, White women remain the majority (80.6%), whereas nurses from minority backgrounds (19.4%) represent a fraction of the RN workforce. Some bedside nurses are exploring other opportunities within the profession, including leadership positions.

Leadership